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 class="gmail-otherPostInfo" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:13px;color:rgb(136,136,136);margin-bottom:7px;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;color:rgb(51,51,51)">By <span class="gmail-author gmail-vcard" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block"><span class="gmail-screen-reader-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block">Author</span><a href="https://telanganatoday.com/author/telanganatoday" rel="author" class="gmail-url gmail-fn gmail-n" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(3,128,206);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;outline:none">TelanganaToday</a></span></span>  |  <span class="gmail-published" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Published: <span class="gmail-date gmail-updated gmail-published" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;color:rgb(102,102,102);margin-left:15px">9th May 2019</span></span>  1:52 am</div><img width="602" height="400" src="https://cdn.telanganatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sbi-602x400.jpg" class="gmail-attachment-large gmail-size-large gmail-wp-post-image" alt="" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; display: block; height: auto; width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; z-index: 2;">J Swaminathan, ex-officio Chairman of TOLIC, and Deputy Managing Director of SBI and others at the celebrations.<div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:17px;margin-top:20px;font-family:"Droid Serif",serif;line-height:1.4;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;line-height:1.5"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Hyderabad:</span> The Town Official Language Implementation Committee (Banks), Hyderabad, conducted the valedictory function of various programmes by its member banks for the year on Wednesday.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;line-height:1.5">These programmes, under the aegis of State Bank of India (SBI), the convenor of TOLIC (Banks), were held from October last to this March, according to a press release.</p><div class="gmail-newAdd" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px;clear:both"><ins class="gmail-adsbygoogle" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;display:block;text-align:center;height:156px"><ins id="gmail-aswift_1_expand" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;display:inline-table;border:none;height:156px;margin:0px;padding:0px;width:621px"><ins id="gmail-aswift_1_anchor" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;display:block;border:none;height:156px;margin:0px;padding:0px;width:621px"></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;line-height:1.5">The programme was presided by J Swaminathan, ex-officio Chairman of TOLIC, and Deputy Managing Director of SBI. Jogi Meghanath, GM of RBI, M Pulla Rao, Executive Director, IRDAI, and other officials participated in the programme.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;line-height:1.5">As part of the Rajbasha celebrations, competitions were held under 13 categories by various banks. Nearly 216 staff members participated in these competitions. Prizes and shields were distributed to various banks and financial institutions for best implementation of Official Language Policy at their end.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;line-height:1.5">Swaminathan advised all the member banks to implement the Official Language Policy and emphasised the importance of its usage in day to day works.</p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>